From the Oort Cloud to RoPE: The Hardcore Geek Journey of Jianlin SU
Xianbao_QIAN · x · 2026-08-06
This is a humorous, 4chan-style biographical recap of Jianlin SU (creator of RoPE).
- Early Years: Born in 1993 and humorously self-described as an alien from the Oort cloud who ended up in Guangdong, he touched a computer at 13 and started his pure, ad-free science blog 'Scientific Spaces' at 15.
- Hardcore Intuition: At 19, he bypassed standard textbook pedagogy to intuit linear algebra through group theory and quantum mechanics, writing a widely circulated guide on matrices.
- AI & RoPE: The post highlights his personality of 'drilling into dead ends' until the wall breaks, which eventually led to his creation of Rotary Position Embedding (RoPE), a foundational contribution to modern LLMs.
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